Lamjung: A squatter woman of Lamjung has constructed a toilet by selling her ornament. Jitmaya Magar of Bhoteodar VDC-8 invested her hard-earned money and sold her gold earrings and a goat to construct a concrete toilet at an investment of Rs. 10,000. She has constructed the toilet after realizing the importance of toilet.

Jitmaya has constructed toilet by selling her ornament after Bhoteodar VDC was declared an open defecation free zone on the occasion of 10th National Sanitation Week. The VDC has been declared an open defecation free zone after the construction of toilets in 1,378 houses in the VDC.
Bhoj Bikram Thapa, chief, Drinking Water and Sanitation Division Office told that the office has constructed public toilets in Krishna garden and six schools in Bhoteodar VDC.

Source: Nepal Samacharpatra, June 12, 2009